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While as legal counsel for Deputy Commissioner Blair, I will not be following up with additional comments today. The following is a statement in respect of Premier Ford’s comments of today. “A simple inquiry of the OPP would bear out that Deputy ...

This past weekend, Ron Taverner, the Toronto Police Superintendent who is Premier Doug Ford’s close friend and the government’s choice to lead the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), asked that his appointment be put on hold until the integrity commissio...

On Saturday December 15, 2018, the Ontario government announced that Superintendent Ron Taverner will not be installed as Commissioner of the OPP on Monday, December 17, 2018, as originally planned. Instead, Deputy Commissioner Couture will...

December 14, 2018- Today, OPP Commissioner Brad Blair filed an application before Ontario’s Divisional Court, to determine and enforce the jurisdiction of the Ombudsman to review the OPP Commissioner hiring process. On two separate occasions (December 1...

Today, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (“OIPRD”) released the findings of its Systemic Review of the Thunder Bay Police Service (“TBPS”). The Systemic Review was announced in November 2016 following a formal complaint by Brad ...

Yesterday, OPP Commissioner Brad Blair, formally requested that the Ontario Ombudsman review the circumstances surrounding the appointment of the new command of the OPP. The request for the review from Commissioner Blair cited the objective of protecting ...